Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Hooked! The Unyielding Grip of Fossil Fuels on Global Life By Michael T. Klare
Here’s the good news: wind power, solar power, and other renewable
forms of energy are expanding far more quickly than anyone expected,
ensuring that these systems will provide an ever-increasing share of our
future energy supply. According to the most recent projections from
the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the U.S. Department of
Energy, global consumption of wind, solar, hydropower, and other
renewables will double between now and 2040, jumping from 64 to 131 quadrillion British thermal units (BTUs).
And here’s the bad news: the consumption of oil, coal, and natural
gas is also growing, making it likely that, whatever the advances of
renewable energy, fossil fuels will continue to dominate the global
landscape for decades to come, accelerating the pace of global warming
and ensuring the intensification of climate-change catastrophes.
Click here to read more of this dispatch.http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176164/tomgram%3A_michael_klare%2C_fossil_fuels_forever/#more